Integrated Arts?

The Integrated Arts is a model designed to offer support, extension, and supplementary experiences in content areas through interdisciplinary arts activities. The Common Core Standards' emphasis on developing depth and rigor in thought and the ability to communicate relevant information with increasing skill provides the necessary impetus for this model. Content will be viewed through many lenses, allowing the entirety of relevant ideas to be processed and applied broadly and with added depth. Work with visual arts, music, drama, literature, writing, technology, and design will be incorporated and collaboration with classroom teachers will be ongoing. As Yeats wrote, "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". The Integrated Arts is an opportunity to light a very purposeful, very directed fire.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Shooting for the Stars: Self-Portraits







Shooting for the Stars: Self-Portraits
Second Grade
Each grade level at Del Mar Heights creates a self-portrait as a way of developing technical skill, abstract thinking in self-representation, and as a way of creating a memory for the snapshot in time in each grade.


In second grade, students learn about facial proportions, three-toned shading, and detailed observation as they create surprisingly successful portraits. This work is coupled with oil-pastel space scenes as a background, since all of the second grade students are stars in my book. We used analogous, or close, color choice and worked on highlighting and adding depth to spheres. Finally, students created a cloud of words that are relevant to their interests in the present, capturing a snapshot of their young minds.

Delightful self-portraits without a doubt!
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